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...Derr's confectionery store on Baltimore's Milton Avenue, the Hucklebuckers gathered in indignation. As self-respecting drapes, they were fed up with persecution. "A drape is a human, like anybody else," said 18-year-old John Michael defiantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Drapes | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...Outside Derr's, a girl stopped and peered in at the Hucklebuckers. "Do I like those drapes," she said. "Gee, they're like real dads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Drapes | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

Sound Analysis. In Sausalito, Calif., Justice Walter Derr fined Artist Rodney Roth $50, ruled that the sound Mrs. Valerie Humphries had made at a party when Roth bit her bare midriff was "a yell of pain" rather than, as the painter had testified, "a cry of ecstasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...designed as a major film operetta. Jerome Kern, aided by Lyricists Dorothy Fields and Oscar Hammerstein II, wrote five not-so-melodious tunes for Allan Jones's piercing tenor. Short, jaunty, oldtime Musical Director A. Edward Sutherland conducted the actors through the story by the late Earl Derr Biggers. Top-flight Cinematographer Joseph Valentine ran the camera. Yet together, this combination of Hollywood's ablest backstage talent accomplished no more than a jumbled exaggeration of the Boy Meets Girl motif with scattered comic turns by Radio Zanies Abbott and Costello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 25, 1940 | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...that he seems secretive, Dr. Lloyd Derr Felton of Johns Hopkins went to Philadelphia last week where he cautiously urged doctors not to use a vaccine which he developed as a pneumonia preventive* (TIME, Sept. 13) until he has better proof of its efficacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pneumonia Vaccine | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

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